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The eggs of this bird may be found as early as the month of 
August, and as late as the end of March ; October and the two 
following months however, are the principal months to obtain them. 
}Tab. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria, 
Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, 
Interior, Victoria and South Australia, Tasmania, West and 
South-West Australia, South Coast New Guinea. {Ramsay.) 
Genus ERYTHROGONYS, Gould. 
ERYTHROGONYS CINCTUS, Gould. 
Red-kneed Dotterel. 
Gould, Hcmdbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 513, p. 240. 
“This species of upland plover breeds during October and 
November, sometimes in December. It is a bird never as far as 
I know, met with on the coast, but I have received specimens 
from the Clarence, shot near Grafton. Its stronghold seems 
to be the interior of New South Wales and South Australia. The 
eggs are four for a sitting, placed in a slight depression on the 
ground; Mr. Bennett informs me he found them in several instances 
on the mud at the waters’ edge of large inland lagoons and 
lakes in the Lachlan district, and smeared over with mud as if the 
birds had been shifting them from place to place, or perhaps they 
were purposely smeared over to prevent them being detected. On 
the whole they resemble those of JZgialitis nigrifrons, varying 
from light to dark stone colour, thickly covered all over with 
irregular angular and curved lines, and irregular shaped markings 
of black, which cross and recross each other in various directions, 
the lines vary in thickness from that of a fine hair to that of coarse 
thread, on the thicker end here and there they loop and form 
tangles. Measurements of three from one nest:—(A) 1 - 18 x 085 
inch; (B) 1-15 x 0-85 inch; (C) l - 22 x 087 inch. From Mr. 
Bennett's Coll." {Ramsay, F.L.S., N.S.W., Vol, vii., p. 412.) 
